Science Reads Public

Created and curated by Nathan John Cooper

Science books advising on specific topics with empirical data.

  1. Come as You Are by 

    5 stars

    After all the books that have been written about sex, all the blogs and TV shows and radio Q&As, how …

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    Sex

  2. Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by 

    No rating

    A groundbreaking and fascinating investigation into the transformative effects of exercise on the brain, from the bestselling author and renowned …

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    Exercise

  3. Why We Sleep by 

    1 star

    Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it affects every aspect of our …

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    Sleep

  4. Sapiens by 

    4 stars

    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind is a book by Yuval Noah Harari, first published in Hebrew in Israel in …

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    Humankind

  5. The Gene by 

    No rating

    Spanning the globe and several centuries, The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes …

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    Genealogy

  6. What If? by 

    4 stars

    Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, …

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    Misc.

  7. What If? 2 by 

    5 stars

    The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to the weirdest …

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    Misc.

  8. The botany of desire by 

    3 stars

    A Random House Trade Paperback

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    Vegetation

  9. False Alarm by 

    No rating

    Hurricanes batter our coasts. Wildfires rage across the American West. Glaciers collapse in the Artic. Politicians, activists, and the media …

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    Global Warming

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